Reeder Custom Guns - S&W needs to wake up before they ruin their

reputation. We have received several revolvers in the last week or so that were really bad. A 686 we got in was the worse one. You couldn't cock it. When I took the side plate off the internals were locked in tight. It was almost impossible to pry the parts out. The parts had deep milling machine serrations on the internals. The transfer bar was wedged into the upper recess for the trigger so tight I thought it had been glued in.
S&W is one of my favorite companies but there was no way this gun had been shot or even function tested. We aLL have a lemon from time to time but I sure hope this is not indicative of their current revolvers.
I know several companies have put their revolvers on the back burner as their bread & butter is their semi autos. And with everybody buying concealed carry guns these days it is somewhat easy for a lemon to manage to get out the door. But I sure hope this is a fluke.

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The change to barrel shrouds and frame mounted firing pins, the milled out safety system on the hammer slot. I know they need to modernize to stay competitive.

A friend had a .327 Federal on a J-frame. It locked up on him and he sent it to the factory. They refused to fix it and sent a voucher for one of two other models, at his discretion. His son did the same with a J-frame .357. They were both very well compensated to their satisfaction.

Ruger did some of the same on that 10/22 Mag. as did TC with their funky little .22 semi-auto rifle. Remington too. I once had an unfired Colt Anaconda .45LC that was so bad I instantly sold it when I got it back from a factory fix. I know it happens. But as in human resource, once you get done wrong, it takes 10x right actions to balance it again. In this business reputation is everything.

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S&W needs to wake up before they ruin their

That`s one of the worse I`ve heard of..

They have been having some issues for a decade or so.